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Right, my DIY man and I shifted the layout around in my study/office and I left it to him to dismantle all the PC wires, and refix them again - cos he assured me he knew what he was doing.

However, since then, I can hear sound when I am using my headphones but I get no sound without the headphones. Sometimes I like to play my music loud, and I dont like listening to this through my headphones. I am sure it is a simple fix, but I cant see what he has done wrong. I can hear a "noise" when I turn the speakers on, but after that, nothing!

BoobieIf people had hearts like dogs, the world would be a better place!

If you have only a pair of speakers, you usually plug into the green hole.If you also have a subwoofer, the speakers should have a 2nd plug that goes in the black hole.If all the plugs are all the same color, you'll need to squint at the little carvings with a flashlight and magnifying glass to see which is which.

I do have a computer where you can plug speakers into any hole, and the computer pops up a box asking what I want that hole to be for. So if you see your speakers are already plugged into the correct hole, try unplugging and replugging them into the same hole (while the computer is on) and see if the computer needs you to tell it whether you want it to be speaker or microphone or whatever.

Thanks, folks, for all your help - it's a bit late in the day to be pulling out my desk and scrabbling behind it, but I will see if I can sort this out tomorrow. I do remember that I had a problem with the sound when I first set up this new PC. And yes, middletoe, I do connect my headphones to a slot at the front of the PC.

Actually, I have a new mouse and new headphones to install too, so I can do it all at the same time.

BoobieIf people had hearts like dogs, the world would be a better place!

Middletoe is right - it's probably that he plugged them in to the wrong holes. If I remember correctly, you got a very high end sound card so you will want to be sure the speakers are plugged into the correct hole

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.

To be honest, I am knee deep in decluttering my house at the moment - the house is too small to be keeping things I no longer use - so no, I have not sorted this problem out yet.

The wires behind the PC are like spaghettin junction, which I just hate to see - so when Jo comes next week, we are going to screw an extension lead to the underside of my desk and tuck away all those stray cables - and we can sort out the headpone/sound problem at the same time.

BoobieIf people had hearts like dogs, the world would be a better place!